Word: godse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the general went back to his own quarters (but only for a fresh uniform) and started on the messages and orders of the second day. His only propitiatory gesture to the gods of war and luck had been a judicious rubbing of his seven pocket pieces-a collection of...
Well, chillun, we done got us a new "God". 'Matter of fact, we done got us a whole flock of swell new "Gods". Yesterday the names of Brother Pinet, Norton, Schuette and McIntyre were entered in the Good Book. Anyway may they lead us in righteousness through the paths of...
Says famed Astronomer Harlow Shapley in the introduction: "Our success in war and peace depends not on luck, or rhetoric, or the intervention of mythical gods; it depends on human character and modern scientific creations, and on respect for the meaning and methods of science. . . . It is not luck but...
A true god needs apostles, and Paka-Jake picked up plenty. He especially favored females between 15 and 18, and selected the likeliest of them on his excursions through the province. Each chosen one had to present herself alone at "Kullusmalla," favorite miracle-place of the gods. There & then the...
Paka-Jake, needing another outlet, concentrated on clairvoyance: he could always tell that one of his more affluent neighbors was about to die in a few months. Forthwith one of the disciples would be dispatched with a warning-and a promise that Paka-Jake would intercede with the gods if...